In Europe,
the financialized capitalism comes through the monetary union and the
European Union. These are institutional mechanisms of globalized,
financialized capitalism. Therefore, for us, fighting against modern
capitalism involves fighting against monetary union and European
Union. It's part of the broadest struggle.

It is
nonsense to think of democratization and fighting from within the
European Union. Disobedience from within the European Union is
nonsense. It's impossible. But people think that it is possible to
fight from within because they scare of nationalism. That is the big
fear we must confront. Lenin's argument very simply was that
sometimes you've got to separate in order to unite. That means "no"
to the monetary union and getting out of the euro, of course.

Any
government of the Left will have to take Greece out of the euro on
Monday morning, if it is elected on Sunday. You have no option
because otherwise, Mario Draghi will turn the tap off. And if Draghi
turn the tap off, there is no politics, there is no economics, there
is nothing because you don't have liquidity. So, you have to take
action on Monday morning. New currency, new money, new liquidity.
Monetary sovereignty.

Those who
understand the situation in Europe, have three tasks in front. The
first, is a concrete proposal of exit from the monetary union.
Second, a concrete proposal related to exit on how to restructure the
economy, how to begin to create growth and income and how to bring
the economies of Europe together. How to control capital flows, how
to control foreign exchange, how to control investments across
Europe, in order to prevent national conflict across Europe.

The Left
must learn to speak a different language. People don't listen to us,
we need a new narrative. We need a new way of communicating to
people, what kind of society we want and what kind of Europe we want.
People want some kind of Europe, there is such a thing as commonality
of perception. Not a European character, not a European identity, not
a European people, but there is a commonality. We must find a new
narrative. A narrative from a Socialist perspective, from an
anti-capitalist perspective. We don't have it.

We need a
united front of all the forces that are fighting against
contemporary, financialized, oligarchic capitalism in Europe and
elsewhere.

This front
will not be created easily. It will take time. There are many
efforts, many initiatives across Europe right now. We need to be
acting as a unifying force, not a dividing force. We need to find
what brings us together to deliver what we need, which is the
transformation of each country and the transformation of Europe. I
believe it's possible, I believe we can do it, but we need to work
very hard in the near future.